Optimism versus possibility

I'm about to embark on an attempt at starting a new career in voiceovers, but first before I offer my voice to any service, I must be able to produce a high quality recording. So I'm doing a twelve module course on the fundamentals of digital recording. As yet I don't understand a lot of what I'm reading and the specification of an audio program I'd like to buy is total confusion to me - but I'm going to try. I'll learn more and new connections will be made in my brain. Hopefully I'll achieve what I set out to do, but I am doing this while I'm still in full time employment. The idea is that when I eventually retire, I shall have the voiceover activity to simply continue with. I know there's a lot of competition and I know that my voice is not right for everything. The important thing to me is that it keeps me active and also that since my accent was in effect given to me by my mother, I carry on a heritage in a living way.

I didn't originally set out to get into voiceovers. What I had originally done was make a CD where I read different literary pieces that I liked and sent it to an Internet friend in Brazil. The quality wasn't good but the pieces were. Then from comments I received from works colleagues and friends, I decided that there might be something more in this vocie recording business and I've gone on from there. It seems to me that everyone has a lot of potential but doesn't always have the confidence to realise it, or is late in understanding what they're capable of. Whether or not I succeed in my venture will not only depend upon more on my marketing abilities than perhaps on my voice alone, but I have the optimism of not knowing precisely how the future will pan out. So unlike a lot of people who forecast doom and gloom, I have decided to see a light at the end of the tunnel.